@@XRandomuser1792X playing alot and listening a lot develops this skill. I know very little to nothing about music theory, but I can easily find a song or notes by ear and jamming with people easily
i'm willing to bet you actually do know the theory then, you just don't *know* that you know it. i played for a long time and felt the same way, come to realize i'd learned a lot of the fundamentals just by messing around and improvising with friends over time and figuring out what sounds good and when
Music and math are pretty closely related. And not everyone needs to be taught math. In college I met several of the disgusting humans. They are very annoying until you have an unsolvable problem. Then they are your best friend 🤩
Love your channel and your advice! Being an active semi-pro bass player for 40+ years and still playing all the time, mostly in the rock genre, in long time bands, subbing, studio, and jams my advice for getting and keeping the gig is 1) learn to lock with the drummer from the first downbeat; 2) be a good hang - you spend a lot of time NOT playing and no one wants to spend that time with an a**hole; 3) use your ears and make everyone else sound great; 4) be on time to the gig! 5) and most importantly HAVE FUN and bring joy to your fellow musicians and the audience.
You are beyond brilliant. Great advice to all players- at 73 y/o I still have musicians show up late, not knowing their music, not having the basics you just mentioned- and wonder why they can’t get work. You are a master bassist and pro we can all learn from regardless of age. Thank you sharing your knowledge! ❤
yeah i found it alot more fun as a beginner to work on my technique and play progressively difficult songs. Im glad that im only just now starting to learn music theory as i can see the point to it and i enjoy the idea of doing it because i know i like playing the bass.
Great stuff. When I started out learning notes on fretboard I'd draw out the neck with frets on paper and fill in the notes. Doing from memory helped me learn when I picked up the actual bass
I've been a guitar player for 15 years now but I'm about 3 years into taking bass seriously and not just seeing it as a guitarist playing a bass. Man, something about bass just gets me, I fucking love the instrument. And last year I invested in a high quality Ibanez 5 string and it was a great purchase.
dude i have grade 6 music theory, and this still helped. just keeping it simple makes it a lot easier to understand, and i'll probably come back to this video as a refresher in the future.
I'm a little surprised you didn't mention intervals - the musician's alphabet. Having a good grasp of intervals and their shapes on the fretboard makes everything else a little easier to pick up on. Guessing that will be its own lesson soon enough. Good work, as usual.
I won't lie, explaining music theory, to me at least, kind of goes over my head a bit. Something that's been helping me with bass and bass VI is finger placement and shape/patterns, makes a world of a difference for me and helps give me something to not only practices everyday but somewhere to start and move forward. I was curious as to wether or not you might have a lesson for something like that to help us not so musically inclined people
Yesterday i had an aha moment doing blues micro licks on acoustic guitar. This adds right on top of that. One of the most helpful videos i've seen in a long time. The timing helps too though. Thanks man!!
I learned the notes really fast by looking at the strings starting at 0 and i realized that it goes in alphabetical order but the sharp always comes after the actual letter and the flat always comes before the actual letter
I strongly feel (in terms of learning the fingerboard) that it’s best to learn where the natural notes are first, so the C Major scale and A minor scale, and then learn about how to name the other notes while learning the circle of fifths.
Excellent advice. I’m already doing this. I am a flutist/saxophonist and just started playing the bass, it’s a lot harder than my regular instruments But, I’m loving it. You are a fantastic teacher…….
👏👏👏 Thanks Charles. I've been playing for years bass and guitar and every time I check out one of your teachings I always take something from it. Love what your doing brother 👊
perfect advice for me, im a wanna be punk preformer and right now im only in jazz bands. (I want to form a punk band so baddd) i am a singer/song writer and its very helpful to have this video to always come back too. THANK UUU
I just picked up bass not even 4 days ago as my very first instrument. This video is so helpful! Thank you so much! I cant wait to learn all this music theroy and actually get good at understanding music down to it roots as a bass player! Thank you so much!
Thank you, Charles. This is great stuff and immediately very helpful. Sharing your knowledge and skill via this free platform is remarkable and I know there are many who greatly appreciate your time and effort.
THIS GUY HAS POTENTIAL TO BE A GREAT ONLINE BASS GUITAR TEACHER! He just jumped a lot of parts. IT WAS LIKE TELLING ME THE PLAY FOR A BASKETBALL TEAM BUT NOT TEACHING HOW TO DRIBBLE, PASS, OR SHOOT THE BALL. I KNOW HE IS EXPERIMENTING WITH THIS UA-cam THING; BUT, IT IS TIME FIR HIM TO FINE TUNE THE CHANNEL SO HE CAN BUILD HIS TOP SELLING ONLINE COURSES!
Thanks for putting up the chart with the keys on they bass. I've been playing music for over a decade and never learned proper theory, and this videos makes me want to at least memories the keys/ popular chords.
Im so happy you're doing this channel, awesome.this video is exactly where I'm at so it was like you were talking directly to me lol nice one Charles you are awesome
Everytime I watch one your videos I hear the call of the bass and I want to go and practise... Thanks a lot for all your precious and inspiring advices! 👍
I would add.... The fact is the bass, like many string instruments, "gives" us the notes to every major scale because of the patterns created on the fretboard. Most beginners, and intermediate players, realize this early on, and their development kind of slows or stops, becuase they become "pattern players". In many cases you can become quite good just learning a bunch of patterns. however you will hit a wall. You really have to learn the keys (which is the same as learning the scales.. ie Gmajor scale is the key of G major) AWAY from the bass, as an independent concept. if you know the key of G major has one sharp: F#, and you know all the notes on your fretbaord, you have now completely unmoored yourself from needing to know a pattern to play the scale/key.... think about it... now you can play anywhere on the fretboard, playing ANY G, A, B, C, D, E, or F#, and you are in the key of G Major. Patterns are important because they are the tactile element of playing. We develop muscle memory by learning patterns, however, if you are learning say the G Major scale, you should explore and learn 3 or 4 different pattersn for it, AND learn to play it two octaves up and down, at least.
I think some more in-depth music theory is needed with a part 2 video where you explain how to learn your fretboard notes more easily. Also A PDF FILE SHOWING WHERE THE ACTUAL NOTES ARE FOR EACH KEY SCALE HELPS STUDENTS SEE WHERE THEY SHOULD FOCUS!
YA GOT TO GIVE THEM SOMETHING FREE. A free in-depth e-book showing where the notes are on the fretboard and where the notes are for each key in a scale for all seven scales will boost your channel. THIS HELPS A LOT VERSUS JUST SHOWING VIDEO DEMONSTRATIONS WITH TAB. IT CAN CONFUSE PEOPLE.
Awesome lesson as always! My only suggestion is regarding the background music, my preference would be no background music at all during the explanations but if you really want to have music, then keep it very simplistic and soft. Having busy background music competing for attention makes it harder focus and absorb what you are saying. Especially since these lessons (so far) have been geared more towards beginners who might be hearing this info for the first time. When using audio examples for demonstration purposes, maybe cut the background music entirely in between examples so people can keep the previous example in their head when going into the next example for comparison, like when you did the swing vs straight beats. You could insert a small video clip of slap/tap/shredding at the intro (and outro?) for those who find this channel before your main channel, to demonstrate that you really know your stuff. Anyways, just my two cents. 😉
Agreed... Great content. The background music was / is a distraction. I'm hard of hearing and a little older :) so no background music would be appreciated.
That feeling when you thought you wanted to be a car mechanic, then studied aerodynamics and learned that what you really want to be is an Aerospace Engineer. Priceless.
Man, there are so many complaints in the comments. Some people are just ungrateful, I guess. 😔 Anyway, thank you for the video, Charles. This is good information that will help musicians who are serious about learning their instruments. 🙂
3:22 I always imagine chords as stacks of thirds. From there I can change some of the thirds to seconds or fourth to create chord variations like sus4 or 6th chords.
Every time i see a video like this i know i will never be any good its like listening to someone speak in another language. So many great bassists on youtube so i know its me.
Don't let the jargon discourage you. Nobody in any good bands actually talks about keys or major/minor or any of that stuff. A painter knows what color of paint they want to use next and where, even if it doesn't look great until it's done. They don't have to name the ratio to the nearest color or the RGB value or any of the technical stuff. That's for the audience to map out if they so choose. Same with music. If someone else wants to analyze why I went from this note to that note, have fun. I'm playing what I think sounds good and I don't give a damn if it's "incorrect"
3:14 Hey Jude definitely doesn't use this progression (I, V, VI-, IV). It's, instead: I, V, V7, I, which, in the key of C, is: C, G, G7, C. The song key is actually F and its first four chords are F, C, C7, F. Right?
Jesus im seeing now how much I dont know about music theory, ive played for around 1,5 years and I play in bands and can get some songs by ear but I barely know any music theory. If someone tells me to play a G# I would actually have to think A LOT.
I am thinking about getting a halfling or something, a Landscape archtop, a big fretless acoustic bass. I also want another bass, electric just to have another one, a Fender or maybe 2. Not sure which I would get first, something electric or acoustic. I just am not decided, which first. Fender still makes a Mustang that's quite affordable, has upgraded hardware from the older ones, Musicmasters, so for a short scale you can go spend 8 grand on Alembic is it going to be worth it ?. I am more interested in some exotic acoustics, electrics are easy to play, pretty much they can all work out. Tony Franklin and Bobby Vega play the same two basses, the both of them never switched it up, so me having 5 basses is already preposterous. Pino used the same bass for like 7 decades, everyone just uses a Fender and this is all you needed. They all have gorgeous acoustics at home. You kids have like 30 basses, no drums, no guitar, LMAO. Your credit must be maxxed, I have zero debts. At some point you can get too much of a good thing. I wouldn't want that many basses, I would need like a hotel for my basses. I would get like a baritone, maybe a fretless one, I seen a lot of nice baritone guitars online. You could learn to play that for whatever reason, if you needed a guitar track. Baritone would make sense for me, I would just use it to make guitar tracks. I can play some guitar already and not like most these people shredding the same thing over and over, anyways just not a guitar player per se. If I was a guitar player, I would not be one dimensional. I don't give a scrap if anyone here believes me or not, UA-cam kinda sucks bad. What becomes viral videos now, we use to make fake fun of that kinda stuff and now I'm feeling mean. I wanna break some world records in something, for giggles and just cause I know I can, now all of a sudden people forgot how to do some things. The problem is, I don't wanna upload myself to the social trap called the internet. Let's go touch some grass and we can teach each other some new tricks. The internet just created a society of people who can't read and still think they know everything about everything. Those of us who are older, we didn't forget anything...I know your whole world view hinges on the fact the older people are all "dumber" than you...correct ?. One of us is dumb, for sure. Tony Franklin only has 12k subs, are you people like retards out there ?. He's a good player, you seem to be playing follow the leader. How he only has 12k Subs is so dumb. Maybe I will talk to Davie, King Davie 504 and have him slap some legends back into relevance. You kids are more like circus freaks now, some carnival workers. You forgot how to do the parlor tricks and stuff like that, things that nobody else knows how to do, Jester tricks of the court type. Let's see some Evel Knievel type stuff on UA-cam. Launch yourselves out of a cannon or I am about to fall asleep. We invented Jackass, before that we did stunts. We need danger and not of the social kind.
came here after watching ton of wooten videos, i gotta say, you should have the balance between playing the groove and thr rythm of whatever note in whatever key, and the same time, knowing where you are in the fretboard
Frankly I wouldn't get too hung up on learning the note names. The relative pitch positions are far more important. You need to know how to play a root, 5th or 3rd from the key note. And some standard riff patterns. Once you have those patterns under your fingers you can easily adjust to a different key, rather than laboriously thinking for each note "oh, that was a C in that key so now it must be a D in the new one"....
A BASS ACADEMY TO ME WOULD FOCUS THE BEGINNER BY: Doing a video on the different parts that make up the bass guitar; Doing another video on how to properly hold the bass guitar, sitting and standing; My third video would be on how to proper posture for the bass guitar to eliminate injury; My fourth video would be on how on proper right and left hand technique that includes little technique pointers to eliminate strain, tension, and injury. My fifth video would be on learning in-depth (with a free pdf👈🏿) the notes on the bass guitar and how to learn them efficiently; My sixth video would be focused on learning the music intervals on the bass guitar and where they are vertically and horizontally on a scale example; My seventh video would be on what a scale is what notes make up a scale, what are the note degrees are in a scale (shown in a free pdf👈🏿) and what a scale key is; My eight video would be on WHAT A MODE IS AND WHERE THE MODES ARE ON THE BASS GUITAR FOR a certain scale as an example; My ninth video would focused on what triads are (a free pdf showing the triads with different scale fingerings👈🏿) with the different fingerings and where they are in each degree of a scale; I WOULD THEN SHOW A VIDEO ON HOW TO PLAY THE SCALES HORIZONTALLY, DIAGONALLY, AND VERTICALLY (WITH A FREE PDF OF ONE SCALE EXAMPLE👈🏿) ACROSS THE FRETBOARD OF THE BASS GUITAR.
For bass ,the triads played horizontally, idk why ur showing to play simultaneously, really man ? Know ur chords (and how to read and write them),know triads/and 7 chords*or 4 note arpeggios, and know all the modes so you know exactly where u are on the fret board at all times, and you're on ur way to pro level,
Hey Charles, I saw the video you dropped on here about tapping, and it was really just basics. I'm wondering does your patreon have more advanced stuff? I want to get better at tapping, but a lot of stuff on yt is just for complete beginners.
Yes, if you sign up you'll get access to my full beginner tapping course which actually gets fairly challenging towards the end, as well as an intermediate lesson and practice videos for all my songs which obviously includes some crazy tapping!!
Hey Charles, I would still love me to know the best ear-training app that you would recommend. Perhaps I’m not looking in the right places. Help. Thank you.
Do you find your self playing more roots and fifths to outline the chords? Or are you trying to highlight the major/minor 3 and/or 7ths to bring out the tonality of those chords?
it would be nice if people rotate the bass 180° and display the image, this puts the E string at the bottom so when you look at the image, you can look "down" at your bass and look up at the sheet, making it a lot easier to read and play. instead of making you transpose the image in your head. no one every does it. "this is what i know" ya, we know that you can play lol.
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Keep it up man, this channel has potential! 👏🏻
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one day he might be a better bass player than charles!
Collab?
@@alessiopizzignach3878agreed
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Im pretty good at finding out songs by ear and can play with bands, but i know absolutely nothing about music theory
Thats awesome. Did that come easy or is that just a skill you developed through lots of jamming?
@@XRandomuser1792X playing alot and listening a lot develops this skill. I know very little to nothing about music theory, but I can easily find a song or notes by ear and jamming with people easily
i'm willing to bet you actually do know the theory then, you just don't *know* that you know it. i played for a long time and felt the same way, come to realize i'd learned a lot of the fundamentals just by messing around and improvising with friends over time and figuring out what sounds good and when
Same
Music and math are pretty closely related. And not everyone needs to be taught math. In college I met several of the disgusting humans. They are very annoying until you have an unsolvable problem. Then they are your best friend 🤩
Love your channel and your advice! Being an active semi-pro bass player for 40+ years and still playing all the time, mostly in the rock genre, in long time bands, subbing, studio, and jams my advice for getting and keeping the gig is 1) learn to lock with the drummer from the first downbeat; 2) be a good hang - you spend a lot of time NOT playing and no one wants to spend that time with an a**hole; 3) use your ears and make everyone else sound great; 4) be on time to the gig! 5) and most importantly HAVE FUN and bring joy to your fellow musicians and the audience.
Thank you for the advices
This is actually good advice for just about any field.
You are beyond brilliant. Great advice to all players- at 73 y/o I still have musicians show up late, not knowing their music, not having the basics you just mentioned- and wonder why they can’t get work. You are a master bassist and pro we can all learn from regardless of age. Thank you sharing your knowledge! ❤
yeah i found it alot more fun as a beginner to work on my technique and play progressively difficult songs. Im glad that im only just now starting to learn music theory as i can see the point to it and i enjoy the idea of doing it because i know i like playing the bass.
Great stuff. When I started out learning notes on fretboard I'd draw out the neck with frets on paper and fill in the notes. Doing from memory helped me learn when I picked up the actual bass
I've been a guitar player for 15 years now but I'm about 3 years into taking bass seriously and not just seeing it as a guitarist playing a bass. Man, something about bass just gets me, I fucking love the instrument. And last year I invested in a high quality Ibanez 5 string and it was a great purchase.
dude i have grade 6 music theory, and this still helped. just keeping it simple makes it a lot easier to understand, and i'll probably come back to this video as a refresher in the future.
This is one of the best, most understandable, and most practical music theory videos that I've seen so far! Thank you!
I'm a little surprised you didn't mention intervals - the musician's alphabet. Having a good grasp of intervals and their shapes on the fretboard makes everything else a little easier to pick up on. Guessing that will be its own lesson soon enough.
Good work, as usual.
I won't lie, explaining music theory, to me at least, kind of goes over my head a bit. Something that's been helping me with bass and bass VI is finger placement and shape/patterns, makes a world of a difference for me and helps give me something to not only practices everyday but somewhere to start and move forward. I was curious as to wether or not you might have a lesson for something like that to help us not so musically inclined people
I used to play bass guitar and guitar in high school. Your videos are inspiring me to to pick up my old bass again. Thank you!
Yesterday i had an aha moment doing blues micro licks on acoustic guitar. This adds right on top of that. One of the most helpful videos i've seen in a long time. The timing helps too though. Thanks man!!
Just got my first bass today, I think I’ll stick to messing about and seeing what sounds cool cuz this seems like effort👌
You can play around for a few months, learning songs you like. But after those few months you will hit a wall- and then youll be back here
@@laraa7386I got my first bass fir Christmas and I feel like I already hit a wall so here I am but this video is very intimidating to me 😭
@@laraa7386 Yeah, you’re probably right but I got all the time in the world so I’m not really in any hurry
@@linkstudios5626 broooo I got my bass as an early Christmas present, I haven’t really hit a wall yet, still havin fun playing about
ive been playing bass for years and never learned any music theory or anything.. @@laraa7386
I learned the notes really fast by looking at the strings starting at 0 and i realized that it goes in alphabetical order but the sharp always comes after the actual letter and the flat always comes before the actual letter
I strongly feel (in terms of learning the fingerboard) that it’s best to learn where the natural notes are first, so the C Major scale and A minor scale, and then learn about how to name the other notes while learning the circle of fifths.
Excellent advice. I’m already doing this. I am a flutist/saxophonist and just started playing the bass, it’s a lot harder than my regular instruments But, I’m loving it. You are a fantastic teacher…….
Thank you for making your lessons straight forward and practical. I’m loving your style.
👏👏👏 Thanks Charles. I've been playing for years bass and guitar and every time I check out one of your teachings I always take something from it. Love what your doing brother 👊
perfect advice for me, im a wanna be punk preformer and right now im only in jazz bands. (I want to form a punk band so baddd) i am a singer/song writer and its very helpful to have this video to always come back too. THANK UUU
As a fellow bassist, I think the knowledge of chords are usually skipped so I think you should make a more detailed video about chords
I just picked up bass not even 4 days ago as my very first instrument. This video is so helpful! Thank you so much! I cant wait to learn all this music theroy and actually get good at understanding music down to it roots as a bass player!
Thank you so much!
He is absolutely correct! Learn the notes across all of the fretboard first!
Even as someone who doesnt play bass this stuff is entertaining as hell
Thank you, Charles. This is great stuff and immediately very helpful. Sharing your knowledge and skill via this free platform is remarkable and I know there are many who greatly appreciate your time and effort.
I'm glad you put up a channel mang! Been amazed with yer work for some time now. Thankyou.
Thank you, just what I needed as a beginner to be able to understand the full scope of what it takes to become a great bass-ist. Thumbs up.
THIS GUY HAS POTENTIAL TO BE A GREAT ONLINE BASS GUITAR TEACHER! He just jumped a lot of parts.
IT WAS LIKE TELLING ME THE PLAY FOR A BASKETBALL TEAM BUT NOT TEACHING HOW TO DRIBBLE, PASS, OR SHOOT THE BALL.
I KNOW HE IS EXPERIMENTING WITH THIS UA-cam THING; BUT, IT IS TIME FIR HIM TO FINE TUNE THE CHANNEL SO HE CAN BUILD HIS TOP SELLING ONLINE COURSES!
OK...the negative harmony reference was genius and hilarious!!
Thanks for putting up the chart with the keys on they bass. I've been playing music for over a decade and never learned proper theory, and this videos makes me want to at least memories the keys/ popular chords.
1:14 I am so thankful for this, Charles
Thanks for a great tutorial! My Signature bass should be here soon!
Im so happy you're doing this channel, awesome.this video is exactly where I'm at so it was like you were talking directly to me lol nice one Charles you are awesome
Epic lesson, thanks Charles ❤
👏🏻🥉
Everytime I watch one your videos I hear the call of the bass and I want to go and practise... Thanks a lot for all your precious and inspiring advices! 👍
many thanks for this i look forward to seeing further lessons
Solid Charles! Thanks for the tips and practice sheets. More videos on the foundational practices please
Very good advice for the beginner and excellent reminders for all others.
Glad to see you in the teachers' league . It's a sound, plain strategy for every bass beginner to start up with.
Thank you for being So enthusiastic about teaching us
I would add.... The fact is the bass, like many string instruments, "gives" us the notes to every major scale because of the patterns created on the fretboard. Most beginners, and intermediate players, realize this early on, and their development kind of slows or stops, becuase they become "pattern players". In many cases you can become quite good just learning a bunch of patterns. however you will hit a wall. You really have to learn the keys (which is the same as learning the scales.. ie Gmajor scale is the key of G major) AWAY from the bass, as an independent concept. if you know the key of G major has one sharp: F#, and you know all the notes on your fretbaord, you have now completely unmoored yourself from needing to know a pattern to play the scale/key.... think about it... now you can play anywhere on the fretboard, playing ANY G, A, B, C, D, E, or F#, and you are in the key of G Major. Patterns are important because they are the tactile element of playing. We develop muscle memory by learning patterns, however, if you are learning say the G Major scale, you should explore and learn 3 or 4 different pattersn for it, AND learn to play it two octaves up and down, at least.
Gonna send this video to all my guitar and bass students in the future, thanks a lot Charles! You're doing god's work
You do a fantastic job at explaining things!
Thanks Charles!! You are one of the best music instructors. I am excited to learn bass.
Thank you for the video! I just started sharing videos on my UA-cam channel in the hopes of making music literacy accessible to all!
Thanks Charles! This was so helpful 😢🎉
I think some more in-depth music theory is needed with a part 2 video where you explain how to learn your fretboard notes more easily. Also A PDF FILE SHOWING WHERE THE ACTUAL NOTES ARE FOR EACH KEY SCALE HELPS STUDENTS SEE WHERE THEY SHOULD FOCUS!
Thanks for the lesson! I have been playing for a couple years using tabs but have wanted to learn more about theory. Excited to learn more!
Thank you for the help. Gonna look at this in more detail
Excellent lesson. Straight & to the point.
YA GOT TO GIVE THEM SOMETHING FREE. A free in-depth e-book showing where the notes are on the fretboard and where the notes are for each key in a scale for all seven scales will boost your channel.
THIS HELPS A LOT VERSUS JUST SHOWING VIDEO DEMONSTRATIONS WITH TAB. IT CAN CONFUSE PEOPLE.
Awesome lesson as always! My only suggestion is regarding the background music, my preference would be no background music at all during the explanations but if you really want to have music, then keep it very simplistic and soft. Having busy background music competing for attention makes it harder focus and absorb what you are saying. Especially since these lessons (so far) have been geared more towards beginners who might be hearing this info for the first time. When using audio examples for demonstration purposes, maybe cut the background music entirely in between examples so people can keep the previous example in their head when going into the next example for comparison, like when you did the swing vs straight beats. You could insert a small video clip of slap/tap/shredding at the intro (and outro?) for those who find this channel before your main channel, to demonstrate that you really know your stuff. Anyways, just my two cents. 😉
Agreed... Great content. The background music was / is a distraction. I'm hard of hearing and a little older :) so no background music would be appreciated.
I didn’t hear the music until I read your comment. I just listened to what he said about the Bassssss.
Superb stuff Charles🤫
Loved the subtle message about metal 😅😅😅
These videos really help! Thanks for the effort, keep it up ❤
That feeling when you thought you wanted to be a car mechanic, then studied aerodynamics and learned that what you really want to be is an Aerospace Engineer.
Priceless.
Man, there are so many complaints in the comments. Some people are just ungrateful, I guess. 😔 Anyway, thank you for the video, Charles. This is good information that will help musicians who are serious about learning their instruments. 🙂
Thank you so much Charles❤
Ok, you got me with that reverse psychology trick, I'm off to research negative harmony now :)
3:22 I always imagine chords as stacks of thirds. From there I can change some of the thirds to seconds or fourth to create chord variations like sus4 or 6th chords.
I loved this. Thank you
Every time i see a video like this i know i will never be any good its like listening to someone speak in another language. So many great bassists on youtube so i know its me.
Don't let the jargon discourage you. Nobody in any good bands actually talks about keys or major/minor or any of that stuff. A painter knows what color of paint they want to use next and where, even if it doesn't look great until it's done. They don't have to name the ratio to the nearest color or the RGB value or any of the technical stuff. That's for the audience to map out if they so choose. Same with music. If someone else wants to analyze why I went from this note to that note, have fun. I'm playing what I think sounds good and I don't give a damn if it's "incorrect"
3:14 Hey Jude definitely doesn't use this progression (I, V, VI-, IV). It's, instead: I, V, V7, I, which, in the key of C, is: C, G, G7, C. The song key is actually F and its first four chords are F, C, C7, F. Right?
When Charles Berthoud has a new UA-cam channel, I have a new channel to subscribe to. Simple as that.
Jesus im seeing now how much I dont know about music theory, ive played for around 1,5 years and I play in bands and can get some songs by ear but I barely know any music theory. If someone tells me to play a G# I would actually have to think A LOT.
I am thinking about getting a halfling or something, a Landscape archtop, a big fretless acoustic bass.
I also want another bass, electric just to have another one, a Fender or maybe 2.
Not sure which I would get first, something electric or acoustic. I just am not decided, which first.
Fender still makes a Mustang that's quite affordable, has upgraded hardware from the older ones, Musicmasters, so for a short scale you can go spend 8 grand on Alembic is it going to be worth it ?. I am more interested in some exotic acoustics, electrics are easy to play, pretty much they can all work out. Tony Franklin and Bobby Vega play the same two basses, the both of them never switched it up, so me having 5 basses is already preposterous. Pino used the same bass for like 7 decades, everyone just uses a Fender and this is all you needed. They all have gorgeous acoustics at home.
You kids have like 30 basses, no drums, no guitar, LMAO. Your credit must be maxxed, I have zero debts. At some point you can get too much of a good thing. I wouldn't want that many basses, I would need like a hotel for my basses. I would get like a baritone, maybe a fretless one, I seen a lot of nice baritone guitars online. You could learn to play that for whatever reason, if you needed a guitar track.
Baritone would make sense for me, I would just use it to make guitar tracks. I can play some guitar already and not like most these people shredding the same thing over and over, anyways just not a guitar player per se. If I was a guitar player, I would not be one dimensional. I don't give a scrap if anyone here believes me or not, UA-cam kinda sucks bad. What becomes viral videos now, we use to make fake fun of that kinda stuff and now I'm feeling mean.
I wanna break some world records in something, for giggles and just cause I know I can, now all of a sudden people forgot how to do some things. The problem is, I don't wanna upload myself to the social trap called the internet. Let's go touch some grass and we can teach each other some new tricks. The internet just created a society of people who can't read and still think they know everything about everything.
Those of us who are older, we didn't forget anything...I know your whole world view hinges on the fact the older people are all "dumber" than you...correct ?.
One of us is dumb, for sure. Tony Franklin only has 12k subs, are you people like retards out there ?. He's a good player, you seem to be playing follow the leader.
How he only has 12k Subs is so dumb. Maybe I will talk to Davie, King Davie 504 and have him slap some legends back into relevance.
You kids are more like circus freaks now, some carnival workers. You forgot how to do the parlor tricks and stuff like that, things that nobody else knows how to do, Jester tricks of the court type. Let's see some Evel Knievel type stuff on UA-cam. Launch yourselves out of a cannon or I am about to fall asleep. We invented Jackass, before that we did stunts. We need danger and not of the social kind.
came here after watching ton of wooten videos, i gotta say, you should have the balance between playing the groove and thr rythm of whatever note in whatever key, and the same time, knowing where you are in the fretboard
Sorry if you've covered this before in another video, but any ear training apps you'd recommend?
This is so awesome
2:00 I'm not finding any link to the practice backing track. Hope someone can point me to the backing track.
Nice reference of And 'Justice' for All (except maybe the Mr Newatead)
LOL @ metal jab. love it Jason got screwed.
Thank you!
Thank you to help all the amateur bass players!!
Frankly I wouldn't get too hung up on learning the note names. The relative pitch positions are far more important.
You need to know how to play a root, 5th or 3rd from the key note. And some standard riff patterns.
Once you have those patterns under your fingers you can easily adjust to a different key, rather than laboriously thinking for each note "oh, that was a C in that key so now it must be a D in the new one"....
This is a great video!
This is great 👍
Charles is the true teacher
Can you recommend a particular ear training app?
Thanks so much for this video 💚
Hey Charles, do you have a favorite ear training app that you would recommend? Thanks for the video!
Great lesson 🤘🏼
No bass on AJFA 😭😭😭
A BASS ACADEMY TO ME WOULD FOCUS THE BEGINNER BY:
Doing a video on the different parts that make up the bass guitar;
Doing another video on how to properly hold the bass guitar, sitting and standing;
My third video would be on how to proper posture for the bass guitar to eliminate injury;
My fourth video would be on how on proper right and left hand technique that includes little technique pointers to eliminate strain, tension, and injury.
My fifth video would be on learning in-depth (with a free pdf👈🏿) the notes on the bass guitar and how to learn them efficiently;
My sixth video would be focused on learning the music intervals on the bass guitar and where they are vertically and horizontally on a scale example;
My seventh video would be on what a scale is what notes make up a scale, what are the note degrees are in a scale (shown in a free pdf👈🏿) and what a scale key is;
My eight video would be on WHAT A MODE IS AND WHERE THE MODES ARE ON THE BASS GUITAR FOR a certain scale as an example;
My ninth video would focused on what triads are (a free pdf showing the triads with different scale fingerings👈🏿) with the different fingerings and where they are in each degree of a scale;
I WOULD THEN SHOW A VIDEO ON HOW TO PLAY THE SCALES HORIZONTALLY, DIAGONALLY, AND VERTICALLY (WITH A FREE PDF OF ONE SCALE EXAMPLE👈🏿) ACROSS THE FRETBOARD OF THE BASS GUITAR.
For bass ,the triads played horizontally, idk why ur showing to play simultaneously, really man ? Know ur chords (and how to read and write them),know triads/and 7 chords*or 4 note arpeggios, and know all the modes so you know exactly where u are on the fret board at all times, and you're on ur way to pro level,
Thx for the video.
Listen to a virtuoso talk about basics is just great! We must learn to crawl before we can walk. :-)
3:14 I think you meant Let It Be. Love your vids btw
Ha! Bass-ic setup today
Hey Charles, I saw the video you dropped on here about tapping, and it was really just basics. I'm wondering does your patreon have more advanced stuff? I want to get better at tapping, but a lot of stuff on yt is just for complete beginners.
Yes, if you sign up you'll get access to my full beginner tapping course which actually gets fairly challenging towards the end, as well as an intermediate lesson and practice videos for all my songs which obviously includes some crazy tapping!!
@@CharlesBerthoud 🙏🙏
Ive been playing bass for 10+ yrs and this still confuses me i just learn the songs i like and go all by ear
Terrific!!
Okay what about the bass in Mexican regional music? What kind of style is that? Please do a review on that and on Luis Miguel bass player. Thanks
excellent stuff! any recommendations for ear training apps?
You suggested that we get an ear-training app. Is there one that you would recommend above other, especially for beginners? Thank you.
Hey Charles, I would still love me to know the best ear-training app that you would recommend. Perhaps I’m not looking in the right places. Help. Thank you.
Hi, love your channel! I just started learning bass as a new hobby and I was wondering what ear training app you recommend?
Which ear training app would you recommend? Thank you
Hey Basscamp, can you make a vid on how to become as good as Charles Berthoud? Thanks!
Do you find your self playing more roots and fifths to outline the chords? Or are you trying to highlight the major/minor 3 and/or 7ths to bring out the tonality of those chords?
What is a swung or straight note?
In this video you show the C major triads, is there an equivalent explanation for the C minor triads?
it would be nice if people rotate the bass 180° and display the image, this puts the E string at the bottom so when you look at the image, you can look "down" at your bass and look up at the sheet, making it a lot easier to read and play. instead of making you transpose the image in your head. no one every does it. "this is what i know" ya, we know that you can play lol.